€1,100 Main Event Day 2 | 2019 Unibet Open Sinaia

€1,100 Main Event

Day 2 Started

02-15-2019 15:01 UTC+3

Day 2 Seat Draw

Christian Zetzsche

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	1	Marius Asanache	Romania	41,000	41
1	2	Tudor Bartha Lazar	Romania	76,600	77
1	3	Catalin Gheorghe	Romania	38,300	38
1	4	Daiva Byrne	Lithuania	61,200	61
1	5	Emil Brunnberg	Sweden	17,600	18
1	6	Claudiu Ianuszewicz	Romania	54,000	54
1	7	Mihai Niste	Romania	68,100	68
1	8	Florian Duta	Romania	19,700	20

2	1	Lennaert Joostens	Netherlands	64,700	65
2	2	Gilles Segers	Belgium	87,400	87
2	3	Ionut Decher	Romania	44,800	45
2	4	John Pyle	United States	39,800	40
2	5	Sandor Hadnagy	Hungary	71,300	71
2	6	Piotr Shautsou	Belarus	19,900	20
2	7	Maxime Canevet	France	36,800	37
2	8	Alexandru Papazian	Romania	34,000	34

3	1	Iulian Tataru	Romania	177,800	178
3	2	Armand Matti	Romania	37,700	38
3	3	James Noonan	Ireland	55,000	55
3	4	Daniel Dolcic	Croatia	77,500	78
3	5	Igor Hrekul	Ukraine	46,400	46
3	6	Dan Cristian	Romania	62,200	62
3	7	Mihaela Roman	Romania	57,900	58
3	8	Iulian Bleau	Romania	52,900	53

4	1	Markus Heikkila	Sweden	61,500	62
4	2	Timo Vogt	Austria	39,800	40
4	3	Tomasz Kozub	Poland	5,200	5
4	4	Adrian Marin	Romania	21,200	21
4	5	Dehlia de Jong	Netherlands	28,400	28
4	6	Amanda Sidark	Sweden	76,500	77
4	7	Pawel Andrearczyk	Poland	23,300	23
4	8	Lucian Bera	Romania	32,800	33

5	1	Dan Adrian Bogdan	Romania	21,800	22
5	2	Nicolae Suciu	Romania	102,900	103
5	3	Patrick Keller	Germany	28,900	29
5	4	Constantin Manole	Romania	21,800	22
5	5	Andrei Jambor	Romania	135,500	136
5	6	Alexandre Reard	France	18,900	19
5	7	Luciana Manolea	Romania	69,000	69
5	8	Ioan Taizs	Romania	76,600	77

6	1	Marius Gicovanu	Romania	57,100	57
6	2	Bogdan Bogorin	Romania	53,000	53
6	3	Cristian Visoiu	Romania	26,000	26
6	4	Gabriel Gavrila	Romania	39,300	39
6	5	Johannes Vaeisaenen	Finland	139,600	140
6	6	Jaakko Hokkanen	Finland	63,000	63
6	7	Mihai Ercuta	Romania	55,300	55
6	8	Mircea Flutur	Romania	21,700	22

7	1	Andrey Yanyuk	United States	99,500	100
7	2	Silviu Scobai	Romania	59,100	59
7	3	David Lappin	Ireland	36,000	36
7	4	Cosmin Cristescu	Romania	48,200	48
7	5	Martin Soukup	Czech Republic	62,400	62
7	6	Joery Van Limbergen	Belgium	72,800	73
7	7	Pekka Ikonen	Finland	26,400	26
7	8	Monica Vaka	Norway	30,400	30

8	1	Jenny Israel	France	45,100	45
8	2	Marian Firoiu	Romania	42,800	43
8	3	Vinzent Streit	Austria	34,700	35
8	4	Oerjahn Winther	Sweden	45,000	45
8	5	Nikolay Ponomarev	United Kingdom	141,200	141
8	6	Adrian Constantin	Romania	67,300	67
8	7	Antti Tiainen	Finland	94,900	95
8	8	Oleksandr Sharov	Ukraine	65,000	65

9	1	Antti Salmela	Finland	49,900	50
9	2	Vesa Kekalainen	Finland	67,000	67
9	3	Raoul Iancovici	Romania	32,000	32
9	4	Alexandru Strugut	Romania	42,600	43
9	5	Antoanell Judet	Romania	24,600	25
9	6	Ran Shahar	Israel	26,500	27
9	7	Jean-Serge Baril	Canada	61,000	61
9	8	Danut Chisu	Romania	25,800	26

10	1	Tomas Ksenevicius	Lithuania	68,300	68
10	2	Vally Bleanda	Romania	22,000	22
10	3	Alexandru Palievici	Romania	89,000	89
10	4	Mihai Banu	Romania	55,800	56
10	5	Ionut Voinea	Romania	78,300	78
10	6	Ferenc Pal	Romania	45,400	45
10	7	Per Helge Gassand	Norway	37,700	38
10	8	Ionel Tanase	Romania	24,400	24

11	1	Espen Uhlen Jorstad	Norway	71,800	72
11	2	Eirik Gravdal	Norway	25,700	26
11	3	Amitai Or	Israel	38,900	39
11	4	Steffen Clausen	Denmark	23,000	23
11	5	Tom Wiggers	Netherlands	61,100	61
11	6	Kyriakos Papadopoulos	Greece	67,000	67
11	7	Steven Vollers	Netherlands	69,600	70
11	8	Even Eidebakk	Norway	17,100	17

12	1	Alan Widmann	Germany	76,400	76
12	2	Alexandru Cinca	Romania	32,800	33
12	3	Andrei Toma	Romania	89,400	89
12	4	Bogdan Sovaiala	Romania	104,800	105
12	5	Andrei Badulescu	Romania	25,900	26
12	6	Csaba Szerze	Hungary	46,700	47
12	7	Eugen Chiva	Romania	23,100	23
12	8	Andrei Alecu	Romania	64,700	65

13	1	Joni Salo	Finland	34,300	34
13	2	Andrei Dobrescu	Romania	29,500	30
13	3	Cristian Trif	Romania	30,000	30
13	4	Silviu Baltateanu	Romania	72,600	73
13	5	Mihai Tusnea	Romania	32,100	32
13	6	Anghel Valentin	Romania	19,200	19
13	7	Daniel Aberg	Sweden	82,600	83
13	8	Igor Pirnau	Romania	20,200	20

14	1	Gilles Huet	France	99,200	99
14	2	Apostol Beg	Romania	40,200	40
14	3	Jordi Corbun	Netherlands	77,800	78
14	4	Dmitrii Prusov	Russia	36,800	37
14	5	Jamie Tansley	United Kingdom	70,900	71
14	6	Dara O'Kearney	Ireland	21,500	22
14	7	Adrian Neculae	Romania	22,900	23
14	8	Constantin Calea	Romania	4,200	4

15	1	Carmen Zainescu	Romania	91,800	92
15	2	Dan Petrea	Romania	46,000	46
15	3	Nicklas Kley	Sweden	29,000	29
15	4	Hugues Mazerolle	France	105,200	105
15	5	Radu Lungu	Romania	59,300	59
15	6	Tiberiu Tirca	Romania	93,100	93
15	7	Denis Simionel	Moldova	22,900	23
15	8	Quentin Lecomte	France	54,500	55

16	1	Dan Murariu	Romania	77,700	78
16	2	Cristian Grecu	Romania	71,400	71
16	3	Julien Therond	France	20,000	20
16	4	Eddie Puia	Romania	60,700	61
16	5	Dwayne Sluis	Netherlands	71,200	71
16	6	George Tomescu	Romania	28,100	28
16	7	Anko Hoogendijk	Netherlands	96,700	97
16	8	Hallstein Boerve	Norway	66,700	67

17	1	Bogdan Nicolae	Romania	15,200	15
17	2	Andrei Boghean	Romania	77,000	77
17	3	Kenneth Kull	Finland	58,800	59
17	4	Iulian Blebea	Romania	52,500	53
17	5	Ronnie Espensen	Denmark	23,800	24
17	6	Jorma Vuoksenmaa	Finland	25,700	26
17	7	Pavel Alexandru	Romania	160,000	160
17	8	Daniel Effendy	Germany	92,000	92

18	1	Stefan Drusca	Romania	45,700	46
18	2	Tomasz Olejnik	Poland	111,400	111
18	3	Peter Kaae	Denmark	98,200	98
18	4	Cristian Dina	Romania	30,300	30
18	5	Valentin Dobrescu	Romania	37,800	38
18	6	Sorin Radulescu	Romania	24,100	24
18	7	Eduard Fechita	Romania	49,800	50
18	8	Kevin van Der Kooi	Netherlands	58,000	58

19	1	Mihai Manole	Romania	16,500	17
19	2	Padraig O'Neill	Ireland	110,100	110
19	3	Evangelos Bechrakis	Greece	80,900	81
19	4	Stefan Fabian	Romania	62,800	63
19	5	Ciprian Voican	Romania	66,800	67
19	6	George Damian	Romania	23,500	24
19	7	[Removed:402]	Lithuania	80,200	80
19	8	Marius Iftima	Romania	29,000	29

20	1	Codrut Uta	Romania	23,700	24
20	2	Marc Wilkens	Netherlands	46,100	46
20	3	Vasile Stancu	Romania	63,600	64
20	4	Bjorn Samuelsson	Sweden	11,300	11
20	5	Mihail Rablou	Romania	106,500	107
20	6	Dragos Boldoi	Romania	57,500	58
20	7	Attila Gombos	Romania	42,800	43
20	8	Ian Simpson	United Kingdom	86,400	86

21	1	Catalin Moraru	Romania	71,800	72
21	2	Florin Pandilica	Romania	38,200	38
21	3	Levente Pal	Romania	54,700	55
21	4	Traian Bostan	Romania	57,500	58
21	5	Sergiu Covrig	Romania	47,000	47
21	6	Cosmin Cimpeanu	Romania	52,500	53
21	7	Razvan Bizera	Romania	120,300	120
21	8	Eirik Lunde	Norway	58,200	58

22	1	Katie Swift	United Kingdom	29,300	29
22	2	Adrian Andronache	Romania	107,000	107
22	3	Mariusz Niski	Poland	29,400	29
22	4	Corrie Romate	Netherlands	58,900	59
22	5	Solomon Stan	Romania	39,000	39
22	6	Adrian Nica	Romania	58,000	58
22	7	Narcis Gabriel Nedelcu	Romania	38,000	38
22	8	Tymur Kasilov	Ukraine	80,000	80

23	1	Johan Creutz	Sweden	78,500	79
23	2	Cristian Tardea	Romania	68,500	69
23	3	Alexandru Farcasanu	Romania	27,500	28
23	4	Andy Hills	United Kingdom	13,800	14
23	5	Aku Joentausta	Finland	97,000	97
23	6	Adrian-Sorel State	Romania	60,000	60
23	7	Nils Jarefjall	Sweden	60,500	61
23	8	Dylan Herklots	Netherlands	48,600	49

24	1	Corentin Ropert	France	116,400	116
24	2	Tomas Montrimas	Lithuania	51,800	52
24	3	Alexandru Gavrilut	Romania	24,400	24
24	4	Andrei Tamaduianu	Romania	18,500	19
24	5	Petre Chiriac	Romania	20,700	21
24	6	Mateusz Moolhuizen	Netherlands	54,000	54
24	7	Mihnea Potcoava	Romania	36,800	37
24	8	Gedas Petrauskas	Lithuania	63,000	63

25	1	Andrei Nodea	Romania	22,100	22
25	2	Jani Tuomaala	Finland	62,000	62
25	3	Dumitru Pora	Romania	54,400	54
25	4	Samlane Phomveha	France	22,600	23
25	5	Razvan Sabau	Romania	92,500	93
25	6	Gheorghe Androne	Romania	81,000	81
25	7	Eduard Norel	Romania	74,600	75

02-15-2019 15:23 UTC+3

The Race to the Money on Day 2 of the 2019 Unibet Open Sinaia Ski-Edition

Christian Zetzsche

Corentin Ropert among big stacks for Day 2

After three starting days, the special ski-edition of the 2019 Unibet Open Sinaia €1,100 Main Event has attracted a field of 366 entries and 199 players advanced after eight levels of play to remain in contention. They will return at 3 p.m. local time to take their seats at the New Montana Hotel on route to become the next Unibet Open champion.

Leading the field into Day 2 is local player Iulian Tartaru with 177,800, followed by Pavel Alexandru (160,000) and Day 1a chip leader Nikolay Ponomarev (141,200). Other notables with above average stacks heading into money day include Corentin Ropert (116,400), Padraig O'Neill (110,100), Aku Joentausta (97,000), Carmen Zainescu (91,800) and Evangelos Bechrakis (80,900).

Four esports streamers that took part in the esports Battle Royale XII made it through along with all Unibet Poker ambassadors and Andrey “reynad” Yanyuk tops them all with 99,500. The streamers Alan "Hotted89" Widmann (76,400), Kevin "Rotterdam" van der Kooi (58,000) and John "Swifty" Pyle (39,800) are all in contention.

Ian Simpson bowed out on Day 1b and advanced with the second-biggest stack in the turbo heat to return with 86,400. He will be joined by Dan Murariu (77,700), Espen Uhlen Jorstad (71,800), Daiva Byrne (61,200), Quentin Lecomte (54,500), David Lappin (36,000), Monica Vaka (30,400), Dara O'Kearney (21,500) and Alexandre Reard (18,900).

Besides two-time champion Murariu, Mateusz Moolhuizen (54,000) will also be aiming for the elusive trifecta, 2016 Bucharest champion Traian Bostan (57,500) will attempt to keep the title on home soil once more. Lecomte (2013 Cannes) and Martin Soukup (2016 Malta, 62,400) are the other former champion still in contention for Day 2.

2019 Unibet Open Sinana Main Event Schedule

Day	Date	Time	Entries	Survivors	Further Information
Day 1a	February 13th, 2019	15:00	120	56	Play eight levels of 60 minutes, late reg six levels, 60-min dinner break after level four
Day 1b	February 14th, 2019	15:00	176	90	Play eight levels of 60 minutes, late reg six levels, 60-min dinner break after level four
Day 1c	February 14th, 2019	22:00	70	53	Play eight levels of 20 minutes, late reg six levels, re-entry for bustouts of 1a/1b
Day 2	February 15th, 2019	15:00	366	199	Play eight levels of 60 minutes each, money bubble will burst
Day 3	February 16th, 2019	15:00	tba	tba	Play down to a final table
Final Day	February 17th, 2019	tba	tba	tba	Level duration 45 minutes with six remaining, 30 minutes long when three remain

Up to eight levels of 60 minutes each will be played with level nine recommencing at blinds of 5,000/1,000 with a big blind ante of 1,000. There will be a break every two levels and a 60-minute dinner break after the fourth level, the money bubble is expected to burst in the second half of the day.

Right from the start, the feature table will be streamed live on the Unibet Poker Twitch channel on a security delay of 30 minutes and you can watch the action as of 3.30 p.m. local time. The PokerNews team will be on the floor to provide everything you need to know until a champion is crowned this upcoming Sunday.

^{Photos courtesy of Tambet Kask and Elena Kask/Unibet}

Tags: Aku Joentausta Alexandre Reard Carmen Zainescu Corentin Ropert Daiva Byrne Dan Murariu Dara O'Kearney David Lappin Espen Uhlen Jorstad Evangelos Bechrakis Ian Simpson Mateusz Moolhuizen Monica Vaka Nikolay Ponomarev Padraig O'Neill Quentin Lecomte Traian Bostan Martin Soukup

Level: 9

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 1,000

02-15-2019 16:04 UTC+3

Prize Pool Information

Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

A total of 366 entries created a prize pool of €366,000, and the top 47 spots will get paid. The min cash is worth €2,085 and the winner will take home €71,000 and the Unibet Open Main Event trophy.

Place	Prize (in EUR)	Prize (in USD)	Place	Prize (in EUR)	Prize (in USD)	Place	Prize (in EUR)	Prize (in USD)
1	€71,000	$79,987	8	€8,930	$10,060	18-20	€3,835	$4,320
2	€45,310	$51,045	9	€7,320	$8,247	21-23	€3,410	$3,842
3	€33,960	$38,259	10-11	€6,275	$7,069	24-27	€3,025	$3,408
4	€27,485	$30,964	12-13	€5,470	$6,162	28-31	€2,670	$3,008
5	€21,665	$24,407	14-15	€4,820	$5,430	32-39	€2,340	$2,636
6	€16,545	$18,639	16-17	€4,295	$4,839	40-47	€2,085	$2,349
7	€12,150	$13,688

02-15-2019 16:05 UTC+3

The First Feature Table for Day 2

Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Andrey "reynad" Yanyuk will take on the two Unibet Poker ambassadors David Lappin and Monica Vaka for the first feature table of the day, and they are joined by 2016 Malta champion Martin Soukup.

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
7	1	Andrey Yanyuk	United States	99,500	100
7	2	Silviu Scobai	Romania	59,100	59
7	3	David Lappin	Ireland	36,000	36
7	4	Cosmin Cristescu	Romania	48,200	48
7	5	Martin Soukup	Czech Republic	62,400	62
7	6	Joery Van Limbergen	Belgium	72,800	73
7	7	Pekka Ikonen	Finland	26,400	26
7	8	Monica Vaka	Norway	30,400	30

Tags: David Lappin Martin Soukup Monica Vaka Andrey Yanyuk

02-15-2019 16:15 UTC+3

Valentin Can't Hold with Jacks; Toma Cracks Aces

Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

The first all in and call didn't take long and an early upset included the elimination of Csaba Szerze. He got it in with against the of Andrei Toma and the latter got there. While Szerze left the table in disgust, Toma took out his smartphone to snap a picture of the cards and board.

One table over, Anghel Valentin was at risk with and Andrei Dobrescu got there with .

Player	Chips	Progress
Andrei Toma	135,000	45,600
Andrei Dobrescu	50,000	20,500
Anghel Valentin	Busted
Csaba Szerze	Busted

Tags: Andrei Toma Csaba Szerze Anghel Valentin

02-15-2019 16:17 UTC+3

More Early Casualties

Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Adrian Nica	Busted
Adrian Marin	Busted
Bogdan Nicolae	Busted
Alexandru Papazian	Busted
Florian Duta	Busted

02-15-2019 16:25 UTC+3

Dream Start for Byrne

Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

In one of the first hands of the day, there was a double elimination in the far corner of the room and it was Unibet Poker ambassador Daiva Byrne that knocked out two opponents.

According to Byrne, Marius Asanache raised to 2,200 in the cutoff and Catalin Gheorghe called in the small blind. Byrne three-bet to 9,000 in the big blind and Asanache jammed for more than 40 big blinds. Gheorghe called all in and Byrne looked up both with the superior stack.

Asanache held and Gheorghe turned over suited, Byrne had the . An ace-jack high flop improved Gheorghe, but a king appeared on the river.

Player	Chips	Progress
Daiva Byrne	145,000	83,800
Marius Asanache	Busted
Catalin Gheorghe	Busted

Tags: Catalin Gheorghe Daiva Byrne Marius Asanache

02-15-2019 16:34 UTC+3

Next Batch of Casualties

Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

The field has already been reduced to the last 180 hopefuls in the first half of the level and among the next to bust were Bjorn Samuelsson, Mihai Ercuta and Danut Chisu.

Player	Chips	Progress
Danut Chisu	Busted
Mihai Ercuta	Busted
Piotr Shautsou	Busted
Silviu Scobai	Busted
Adrian Neculae	Busted
Dan Adrian Bogdan	Busted
Cristian Trif	Busted
Mircea Flutur	Busted
Bjorn Samuelsson	Busted
George Damian	Busted

Tags: Bjorn Samuelsson Danut Chisu Mihai Ercuta